The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 18
With these words they both disappeared and left him.
Who acts: rewards · What happens: disappear, leave · To what, where: Fear
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rewards), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 words | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 words | det |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 disappeared | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 disappeared | nsubj |
| 5 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 disappeared | nsubj |
| 6 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 left | cc |
| 8 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 disappeared | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 left | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 disappeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disappear | past | rewards = reward | with this words | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | past | rewards = reward not said here | Fear | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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